Cooling Tower Troubles?
Cooling towers and closed loop systems are an integral component of many cooling systems that provide comfort or process cooling. These systems operate most efficiently when the heat transfer surfaces are kept clean. Thus, cooling tower maintenance can be critical due to variations of the source water, potential process contamination and exposure to the elements. These different forms of fouling can significantly reduce the efficiency of the cooling tower and the life-cycle of critical equipment such as heat exchangers.
What Do Cooling Towers Do?
Cooling towers are designed to scrub large volumes of air and effectively remove solids. These solids consist of dust, microbiological organisms, and various airborne debris. Process cooling tower water also adds suspended solids. Contaminants can include corrosion products, microbiological organisms, as well as any process fluid leaks. These contaminants and solids can cause multiple problems within the cooling system. Accelerated corrosion, lowered system efficiency, and increasing system maintenance costs are signs of trouble. Given these circumstances, side-stream filtration can provide a significant performance improvement and a lower total cost of ownership.
RHFS offers LAKOS eJCX Premium Efficiency Systems providing basin cleaning and side stream filtration to reduce or eliminate the need for annual tower cleaning shutdowns.
The idea underlying the system is simple – keep the contaminants suspended and cycle them thru a filtration unit like a LAKOS Centrifugal Separator. The short video here shows how these systems operate. The actual choice of filtration is dependent on your installation. Choices can range from smaller stand-alone, high efficiency centrifugal separators. Some of the larger sand filter units are capable of processing over 1,000 gallons of water per minute.
Reduce under-deposit corrosion and biological growth while never having to manually clean the cooling tower basin again. LAKOS cooling tower filtration products remove unwanted build-up, helping to stop legionella growth and other unwanted particulates. Minimize your cooling tower maintenance, minimize downtime, and reduce water loss with LAKOS Centrifugal Separators.
To learn more about how you can minimize maintenance, downtime, and water loss with LAKOS centrifugal separators, contact your Water Specialists today at Ryan Herco Flow Solutions.